So, I decided to pick up a book about writing compilers --- Writing Compilers and Interpreters. I figured it would be good for me to at least know what's involved in writing a compiler. Of course, the first thing in the book is a program to just list the contents of a text file with line numbers and paginated. The lister program, as well as much of the rest of the code, is in C (at least in my edition). … [Read more...]